I am new to QCad, I began working with it in the fall, and took a hiatus, but now am back.

I find the dimension tool to be quite frustrating, I know in September/October I struggled with it, and ultimately learned how to use it properly. At that point the issue was that the actual size of the arrows had to be enlarged in preferences, I adjusted, and was all set.

Now when I use it it simply creates a straight line with a beam on either end, and I am struggling to determine what this even means.

Can anyone help? I just want to draw objects, and attach a size to them.

Just saw your reply, I tried to mock up an example in a new drawing and things got even more bizarre in terms of what the dimension tool was doing.

This was just a brand new file, but I opened it while in session with another and thought perhaps that was an issue.

I closed the program, and now am just trying to do the simplest action of drawing a rectangle, and then adding measurements to it. Now the dimension tool, regardless of what I select on the menu is making angular shapes with large white beams. It really should not be this difficult right? I don't remember it being this way in the fall.

Really confused, attaching screen cap and the file please help explain what I am doing wrong exactly as I am sure the issue is on my end.

kohlerpwns wrote:Oh wow I am a fool. I did not realize there were additional preferences in the drawing I needed to adjust, I was doing it all in the "QCad" preferences.

Hi Josh, no you're no fool, to be honest, unless you read any documentation or have been told about this - you may well expect that this is an obvious way forward.

- AndrewI think it would be a good idea to have an automatic window or a note of some sort associated with the Application Preferences dialog, explaining to the user the difference between 'Application and Drawing' preferences and how it effects things in QCAD, with the option to 'Do not show this again'.